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Americans Don’t Even Know How to Make Their Own Food Anymore 0
- Culture
- October 15, 2015
It’s no secret that Americans like to eat – particularly at restaurants. Just last spring Bloomberg reported that Americans now spend more on dining out than they do on groceries. However, companies such as Plated and Blue Apron are trying to encourage more Americans to eat-in. They deliver meal kits to customers’ homes which offer
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When the Bible Was “Updated” for Modern Audiences 0
- October 15, 2015
Yesterday we discussed the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s project to update the language of Shakespeare’s plays for modern audiences. Today I thought I would point to another example of a piece of Elizabethan literature that was updated into modern idiom: the Bible. (And yes, Christians, I’m aware that the Bible is regarded as more than “literature.”)
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C.S. Lewis on Fapping 0
- Culture
- October 15, 2015
First Things recently reposted an article called “Escaping the Prison of the Self” that includes some insights from C.S. Lewis on the topic of masturbation. What’s interesting is that the excerpt includes no reference to the Bible or religion, but rather focuses on the actual psychology of the act. According to Wesley Hill, the excerpt
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Target Porn 0
- Culture
- October 15, 2015
Target’s taking some heat for the second time in several months over its choice of store music. According to reports coming out of one of its California stores, Target played pornographic audio over its loudspeakers on the morning of October 14th. The Star Tribune reported that “The string of moans and groans [were] laced with
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Free Markets Need Moral People 0
- Economics
- October 15, 2015
The free market economy has been a boon for America in many ways. It has promoted innovation and upward social mobility, and provided many men and women with a high quality of life. But as with all human systems, it’s not perfect, and has been susceptible to certain ills such as unjust wages, cronyism, and
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What’s Really Wrong with the Republicans?0
- Politics
- October 14, 2015
Another piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks is going viral. This one is entitled “The Republicans’ Incompetence Caucus”. I think Brooks’ main point is in the neighborhood of the problem with today’s Republican Party: “The Republican Party’s capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses,
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